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# IX. Binnorie.

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IX. Binnorie. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 9 sentences and 123 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/59/1/) — \_Source\_.--From the ballad of the “Twa Sisters o' Binnorie.”
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/59/2/) — I have used the longer version in Roberts's \_Legendary Ballads\_, with one or two touches from Mr. Allingham's shorter and more powerful variant in \_The Ballad Book\_.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/59/3/) — A tale is the better for length, a ballad for its curtness.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/59/4/) — \_Parallels\_.--The story is clearly that of Grimm's “Singing Bone” (No. 28), where one brother slays the other and buries him under a bush.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/59/5/) — Years after a shepherd passing by finds a bone under the bush, and, blowing through this, hears the bone denounce the murderer.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/59/6/) — For numerous variants in Ballads and Folk Tales, see Prof.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/59/7/) — Child's \_English and Scotch Ballads\_ (ed.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/59/8/) — 1886), i. 125, 493; iii.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/59/9/) — 499.

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